CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA, April 1, 2011: Last year the world was startled by Julia Roberts’ public announcement of her Hinduness, made all the more dramatic coming in the wake of her movie, ‘Eat, Pray, Love.’ Today, Steve Jobs held a press conference at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino to discuss the rumors he has been quietly following a Hindu path for some eight years.
‘I’m here to confirm what you already know,’ the world famous CEO began. ‘Nor should it come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, knows my travels through India in the yearly years and knows my philosophy of life.’ In the mid-70s Steve Jobs took a break from his employer, Atari, and backpacked around India in search of enlightenment. Soon after his return to the US, he and Steven Wozniak launched Apple. His passion for quality and user-friendliness extend, he told one journalist, to his spiritual path.
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who purchased Hinduism Today last year, has also quietly begun following his Hindu faith. ‘Reincarnation is a much better deal than just one life, and I know a good deal when I see one’ he explained.